Nice puns too.

"What are you supposed to be, some kind of advertisement?!"

Coolidge's grandfather to Coolidge, age 12, who had appeared before him in printed T-shirt.

Coolidge has never worn a t-shirt for anything but yardwork or squash since.

"Hey, whadaya gonna do, nice college boy, eh? Didn't want to get mixed up in the family business, huh? Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why? Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit? Hah? What do you think this is — the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away? You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. You blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit."

Sonny Corleone (James Caan), The Godfather

Thanks H.,
I liked that.
M.

“Well—upon my soul!” exclaimed Lawrence Lefferts, turning his opera-glass abruptly away from the stage. Lawrence Lefferts was, on the whole, the foremost authority on “form” in New York. He had probably devoted more time than any one else to the study of this intricate and fascinating question; but study alone could not account for his complete and easy competence. One had only to look at him, from the slant of his bald forehead and the curve of his beautiful fair moustache to the long patent-leather feet at the other end of his lean and elegant person, to feel that the knowledge of “form” must be congenital in any one who knew how to wear such good clothes so carelessly and carry such height with so much lounging grace. As a young admirer had once said of him: “If anybody can tell a fellow just when to wear a black tie with evening clothes and when not to, it’s Larry Lefferts.” And on the question of pumps versus patent-leather “Oxfords” his authority had never been disputed.

(Edith Wharton, "The Age of Innocence." )

"I am a tailor, I tailor shirts"

"The last tailor ranking (if you could call it that) was the Mark-Grayson-endorses-Raphael-and-everyone-else-sucks one, not exactly useful."

"I don't really need to hear another rating of you or Raphael."

"Leonard declares himself hors concours and that is fine, seeing a top rating for him or another petulant gripe by a Grayson-type character is like reading criticism of Taillevent, interesting but something that adds luster and does not detract."

"I have a gripe: a lot of people, especially Mark Grayson, discuss their bespoke purchases, but no one but myself and Kai have displayed pictures of them (perhaps a few others if one includes Style Forum). Okay, you want to hide your faces for a variety of bizarre personal and quasi-paranoid reasons, fine. But why can't people display pictures of their clothing? I would love to see fabric choices and cuts."

Amazon.com quote...

fabulous, April 24, 2004
Reviewer: David Bresch "brescd01" (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews
     
"I think I know what the negative reviewer was driving at: I don't want anyone to find out about this great site either, because it is really fabulous and they will ruin it. The fact is, there are certainly some characters on the site, but there are also industry mavens and incredibly knowledgeable dandies (the poster Marc Grayson has to be read to be believed) who spend all their money on clothes and all their time on shopping. I do not, and so I am very happy to accept their sage advice. I have allready tested out some of their suggestions, and I am sorry I did not find this site earlier. The listowner, by the way, is very benign. There are a few flames, but very few: apparently people do not get that worked up about clothes! By the way, the statistic about slowness is accurate: Andy Gilcrest needs to spend less money on John Lobb shoes and save up for a new server!"

"Dear Gentlemen,

When we were debating the merits of tailors before on AAAC and here, discussions were very abstract. The famous Mark Grayson talked about abominations and we all wondered why he could not return to a tailor to get something fixed. But of course, unless a tailor makes most of his garments perfectly the first time, building a wardrobe becomes even more time-consuming than it has to be, and annoying."
David Bresch

A small fraction of quotes from David Bresh

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